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Internships and Experiential Learning

• Christian Weigandt—Research Experience for undergraduates at the University of Central Florida. This work is funded by NSF. The focus is on Computer Vision. Past projects have focused on lipreading, gesture recognition, human detection using neural networks, analyzing crowd motion as fluid dynamics, etc.

• Samantha Allen — Awarded first place in a paper presentation at the ACM Mid-Southeast Fall 2011 Conference for her work completed in a research experience for undergraduates. The title of her presentation: “Improving the Ranking System for the U.S. Census Bureau.”

• Thomas Langford — Internship at Gilbarco Veeder-Root. This company is the global leader of integrated technology solutions in the retail petroleum industry. He will be working on several in-house projects focused on embeded systems and virtualization of features not found in all systems.

• Kevin Sanders — Research Experience for undergraduates at the University of Michigan REU at CERN. He will be a participant in the Official CERN Summer Student Program. This program is run by CERN for CERN member states and usually recruits about 150 European physics majors. He will be one of 10 US participants in this program.